[haiku-development] Re: "media-plugin" naming convention (was Re: Donating codes: APE reader)
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:36:24 +0200 CEST
> > 3. keep the current structure, but rename "plugins" to something
> > like
> > "file", "stream", ... - again, I would prefer "file" here for the
> > above
> > reason.
>
> What about split our "plugins" to the previous "decoders",
> "encoders",
> "extractors" and "writers" subfolders, indeed? File/stream Haiku's
> media
> plugins are extractors/writers, after all, no?
> Or the issue is now the same file/stream "plugin" feature both read
> and
> write, and can't anymore be separate?
The name changes were due to the incompatibility to the BeOS decoder/
extractor API, to avoid mixing things.
François.
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